- A paper titled “The Affirmation of Transhumanism: Uploaded Embodiment in a Virtual Environment” is being drafted, linking Becker’s *The Denial of Death* to the prospect of mind-uploading and using Second Life as a contemporary example of disembodied presence.  
- Discussion suggests that MMORPGs and virtual-economy research (virtual-economy.org) could provide richer interaction data than Second Life for studying uploaded-embodiment scenarios.  
- Googlebot is now executing JavaScript and issuing AJAX POST requests, implying Google is running a headless V8 engine; this caused one company’s IRC error-bot to flood with false-positive form-submission alerts.  
- Participants debate DNS management: frustration with GoDaddy’s interface versus its low cost, and the lack of a standard protocol for registry/glue-record updates.  
- Interest in biocompatible coatings for implanted magnets: question raised about why parylene is chosen over PTFE (Teflon), followed by discovery of 0.5 mm × 1.25 mm PTFE-coated stir bars suitable for micro-implant experiments.  
- Tokyo Hackerspace’s “NetRAD Geiger Shield” project is noted, featuring a tongue-in-cheek Gundam-themed banner.  
- DODLive hosts a bloggers’ round-table on UAVforge, a crowdsourced unmanned-aerial-vehicle design challenge run by the U.S. Department of Defense.